Telangana May Follow AP in Providing Free Vaccines For All Apr 24, 2021, 14:08 IST
The Telangana government is now planning on providing the free vaccine for all its citizens. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao is discussing the same. He has asked for all the details regarding age, demographics, etc.
It was announced that from May 1
st, everyone above the age of 18 will get vaccinated. The central government made this announcement earlier and shared that states can directly procure vaccine doses from manufacturers. Vaccine manufacturers have been asked to supply 50 per cent of their stock to the Centre, and split the rest 50 per cent between state governments and the open market.
April 19, 2021 RIO DE JANEIRO The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering three million people Saturday amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France.
The number of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Kyiv, Ukraine; Caracas, Venezuela; or metropolitan Lisbon, Portugal. It is bigger than Chicago (2.7 million) and equivalent to Philadelphia and Dallas combined.
And the true number is believed to be significantly higher because of possible government concealment and the many cases overlooked in the early stages of the outbreak that began in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019.
Bhopal crematoriums flooded with bodies: 187 cremated following Covid norms while records show only 5 deaths
At the two crematoriums in Bhopal, 187 bodies were cremated following Covid protocols in four days while the official death toll remained at five.
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UPDATED: April 14, 2021 11:32 IST
A Bhopal crematorium burns bodies in rows as the facilities get overwhelmed by the number of deaths. (PTI)
The number of deceased Covid-19 patients who are being cremated or buried in Bhopal city is far higher than what the official records have been stating over the past days.
The cremation grounds in Bhopal that would see about 5-10 bodies being brought earlier are now seeing 35-40 bodies on a daily basis. The number of bodies that are being cremated following the Covid protocols is far higher than what the official figures show in Bhopal.
Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary on Wednesday (April 14) discussed the deteriorating situation in the country due to the COVID-19 surge which has forced even the dead to wait in line.